I'm coming from SF6 and fairly new to fighting games in general and I'm really struggling to correctly time meanies and continue pressure on my opponents wake up. I can't get the timing right and they often just beat me by mashing on wake up.

I've mostly been playing ken and I've tried searching online for 'sf4 ken oki/oki setups' and I haven't been able to find any useful information on it.

I feel like I'm missing something, so if anyone could at least point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

So, I'm sure some people don't know how to set up Ember on Linux, but I found it's surprisingly easy. This method should be simple to understand and perform and will also track your Ember playtime inside the real USFIV app on Steam.

Prerequisites:

• You must own Ultra Street Fighter IV on Steam.

• That's it. You don't need any other app besides Steam to set this up.

Steps:

1. Download USFIV on Steam.

2. Go to https://github.com/Confetti3/SF4-Ember-Netplay/releases , download the latest archive (.zip) file (NOT the SHA256 file, or the .exe).

3. Go to the Wine prefix of USFIV inside your File Browser.

° I believe this is located in different places depending on how you installed Steam. You can look for the location based off a simple Google search, but if you can't seem to find it, you can use the app Protontricks (which could possibly be already preinstalled in your Linux distro), select USFIV from the list, "select the default wineprefix", then click "Browse files" and that should open the correct location. You should end up in .../compatdata/45760/pfx.

1. Open the "drive_c" folder, and inside it create a folder named "Ember". It obviously doesn't need to be named that, but just go with that, sometimes Steam doesn't like folder names with spaces in them, and it's easy to fix but it may confuse you and waste time for nothing. Inside the folder, extract the .zip file you previously downloaded. If a new folder is created with all the data inside, copy everything into the "Ember" folder and delete the now empty new folder.

2. Hardest part is almost done. Now, go to your Steam library and on the bottom, select "Add a non-steam game". Browse files, locate your Ember folder you just made, and select "Launcher.exe". Add selected programs.

° Find "Launcher.exe" in your library, right click and go to properties. Rename the app to whatever you want, and in the launch options add [STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/your/target/location/<Game ID Here>" %command%], without the [] . Obviously you shouldn't copy exactly what I wrote, basically just copy your "TARGET" location on the top of the same landing page and remove everything past the numbers only Game ID. It's the same directory we were just on a second ago, but without pfx, drive_c and Ember. For example, it may look like [STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/mnt/Shared/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/45760"] You can also add other commands between the path and %command%, like game-performance or mangohud.

1. Go to the compatability tab, and select Proton Experimental, or whatever Proton version you want to use. I use cachyos-proton, since I'm in CachyOS for example, but experimental should work. If the app doesn't launch, you probably forgot this step.

That's it, Have fun! Both Ember and USFIV should launch now when you click "Play" on your Ember app, and you can set up your account and play normally. If you want to update, download the latest zip from the GitHub page and extract in the Ember folder, automatically replacing everything. if something doesn't work, let me know, I'm relatively new to Linux so this is just a method that worked for me, hope I didn't miss anything!

Hey all. I've been playing AE2012 at my local arcade on and off. I don't play FGs often but I know general stuff. I picked up zangief because I didn't want to deal with learning combos and links. I'm not a fan of how they work in sf4. Any tips on how to play gief is appreciated.

I know about doing green hand after spd for the "loop". but i also have trouble doing 360s reliably in scrambles. there's of course the ol problem of dealing with projectiles and guile turtling. but also, just pressure in general. I always find ppl just a bit far away on my knockdown that I don't know what to follow up with. How the heck do I gief reliably!?

Hi guys,

Old FGC rusty player here. Started on SF4 on 2012 but didn't even play more than 100 hours and currently out of the scenes and fg since SF6 release.

Played quite a lot SF5, no more than diamond reached, so, average to low player.

Here's the thing.

I always had the spine with SF4 and dreamed Oni on SF5 + I don't like SF6 and now SF has rollback and I want to take the chance and learn because I really like SF4.

I'm aware about the stuff like option selects, safe jumps, plinking, 1 frame links etc even if I didn't play much back then and definitely my years playing other fg makes it easier to rejoin compared with 2012 where I gave up because I barely could land a super, but I have not the habit of very old players coming from third strike or some other old fighting game and, man, I remember execution in SF4 was hard, but now that I'm trying to learn properly this is not hard, this is hard as hell.. and frustrating.

I want to play Oni no matter what and I though he could be an easy char because feels like an SF5 character fitted into SF4 game, relying on a target combo, no proximity normals, path's through medium buttons, similar pressure of characters like Kage with the slash etc.

True is, even his most basic BnB cr lk x cr lp x bmp, requires 1 link frame, like, almost every freaking character requires it.

AI set to me Oni can be played without 1 frame links, but c'mon, not using his bmp for me is like trolling.

I'm really trying but I'm struggling a lot with the timing of everything. Play without buffer is mad crazy.

I'm trying to plink too but, but never did in the past, getting the habit now is insane. I even land more combos without doing it to be honest, but still failing lots ofc.

I can't cancel specials too after a combo of light buttons for some reason I dont understand, however when I just land a single light button + special comes out 10/10.

Feels like, there's not a single gap or windows for almost everything, unless you do it perfect every single time.

Must be some shortcuts or something like SF5 had to make it a bit easier, because not worth to spend a ton of hours learning just a BnB, and still, as much as you can train it, still so many chances to fail it with no margin.

So, any help is welcomed.

Saw there’s a resurgence. Was hoping to get some technique donations rather than scour YouTube. Even more obscure facts would be welcome. Like how all tiger uppercuts do the same damage on standing vs as anti air.

Is there any way to fix the game's frame drops, and why is it using so much RAM?

I have usfiv on PC and it lets me bind throw, taunt, focus attack and a few other buttons I can't remember. But I was surprised when I went to a local this weekend and played on ps5 to find out that the console version only has LP MP HP LK MK HK 3P 3K. No throw, no focus attack, just those basic buttons.

Also strangely I couldn't bind anything to L3 or R3 either which work fine on PC.

Does anyone know if this is a version specific thing or a console specific thing or a mode specific thing oooor...?

I'm just curious if anyone in Colorado specifically grand junction is playing ps3 usf4 at all? I like playing online with randoms but I'd be cool to have some "local" gaming buddies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8tDUuw5e4g

Can someone send me a new link to the usf4 revival link, i got hacked and they kicked me, and i can’t find any link that isn’t expired.